True indicator is a job at the end
The opening paragraph of your front-page story states that "the myth that new universities are better than old at social inclusion was shattered today by the publication of the sector's first...
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Hold the web page
The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California has launched the hard-hitting Online Journalism Review, covering the state of reporting on the web through news stories...
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Mass observation
The European Southern Observatory has just released more than ten gigabytes of observational data, obtained with the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (ANTU) and the FORS1 and ISAAC astronomical...
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True indicator is a job at the end
Bahram Bekhradnia's figures (Soapbox, December 3) show a striking inverse linear relationship between an A-level points score and the likelihood that a university student will subsequently drop out....
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g spots of bother
Genetic determinism is the new religion, and Rosalind Arden ("g whiz! IQ is a clever concept", THES, December 3) seems determined to be one its apostles. Before people rush to "accept the facts",...
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True indicator is a job at the end
I was surprised the director of policy for the HEFCE should write that "it is clear that our universities have succeeded in maintaining standards" following a comparison with other countries. There...
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House problems
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is to be evicted from its London pied-a-terre. The University of London, freeholder of the flat that comes with the post of CVCP chairman, has decided...
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Set your sites on Oxford
Fancy setting up your own university? A snappy website is a must and Ascension Island is the place to start. All web addresses registered there end .ac, easy to confuse with .ac.uk as used by British...
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For the money minded
Nobody who is any good lectures full time in information technology, computer studies, accountancy or law when they can make four times as much in commerce, Dudley South MP Ian Pearson, a former...
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In the news
As a second American mission in three months looks to have bitten the Mars dust, Colin Pillinger, leader of the planned European mission to Mars, must feel torn. The apparent failure of Mars Polar...
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On the move
Arthur Naylor, principal of St Mary's, Strawberry Hill, has been appointed chairman of the Council of Church and Associated Colleges. He will succeed John Rea, principal of the college of St Mark and...
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Glittering prizes
Brian Groombridge, professor emeritus of adult education at the University of London, has been awarded the Order of the Knight, 1st Class of the Order of the Finnish White Rose, for services to...
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Eyewitness
Since the end of the second world war, Denmark has portrayed itself as a small kingdom that stood up to the Germans. But a new generation of historians is shedding light on Denmark's less than...
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Want to join the EU queue?
East is slowly meeting West in Europe. Nick Holdsworth looks at the implications of integration In the old medieval market town of Brno in southeast Moravia, free buses ferry people to a newly opened...
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Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Malaysian deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has announced the formation of a national student consultative council. The council will act as a forum for university students to air...